An in vitro ES cell imprinting model shows that imprinted expression of the Igf2r gene arises from an allele-specific expression bias

Development

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 437-448

  Latos, Paulina A ^a,b   Stricker, Stefan H ^a,b   Steenpass, Laura ^a   Pauler, Florian M ^a   Huang, Ru ^a   Senergin, Basak H ^a   Regha, Kakkad ^a   Koerner, Martha V ^a   Warczok, Katarzyna E ^a   Unger, Christine ^a   Barlow, Denise P ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airn (Air); Allele specific expression; DNA methylation; Embryonic stem (ES) cells; Epigenetics; ES in vitro imprinting model; Genomic imprinting; Histone modifications; NcRNA

Indexed keywords

AIR NONCODING RNA; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOME IMPRINTING; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATERNALISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HISTONES; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 2; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 64549085469     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.032060     Document Type: Article

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